{"id":983,"date":"2023-01-13T04:57:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T18:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=7ef09b68b846e9337a72d227395eeba7"},"modified":"2023-01-13T04:57:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T18:57:34","slug":"case-for-banning-some-of-new-zealands-shortest-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Case for banning some of New Zealand&#8217;s shortest flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s government has banned short haul flights where green alternatives are available. Could New Zealand do the same? <\/p>\n<p>Short-hop plane trips\u00a0produce more climate pollution, per kilometre, than most long-haul journeys. That\u2019s because a plane burns a high share of jet fuel during takeoff.<\/p>\n<p>France has banned commercial flights where a train or bus service could get passengers to the destination in 2.5 hours or less. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nEnvironmental activists welcomed the policy, which\u00a0was originally tied to\u00a0the French government\u2019s multi-billion dollar pandemic bail-out to national airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Greenpeace has\u00a0called on\u00a0the whole EU bloc to adopt the policy, wherever buses and trains take less than six hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s government has banned short haul flights where green alternatives are available. Could New Zealand do the same?  Short-hop plane trips\u00a0produce more cli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}